UNIAN
Oleksiy Poroshenko, the son of the president of Ukraine, who has been elected to the Verkhovna Rada in a majority district in Vinnytsia region, is an independent politician, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said during his year-end press conference on Monday.
Poroshenko was responding to a suggestion that the president had helped his son to become an MP, according to Ukrainian online newspaper Ukrainian Pravda.
"My son entered the Verkhovna Rada through a majority district as an independent politician, gained one of the largest numbers of votes in a majority district, and has the right as a 30-year-old [man] to choose his own path," Poroshenko said.
At the same time, he has said that the journalists have the right to evaluate his son as a politician and to enquire about his activities of the president, and the president is obliged to answer these questions.
"I believe that this is also a sign of a democratic country, for which I’m fighting," Poroshenko said.